Peter Cawdron https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peter.cawdron Good things come in threes, to phrase a coin. Over the past 14 months I’ve ‘discovered’ Joe Abercrombie and Andy Weir, nether of whom were discovered as much as I stumbled along admiring butterflies or something, and someone put one of their books in my path. So it stands to no reason …
The Ministry of the Future Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit Books, 576 pp, copyright 2020 Kim Stanley Robinson is rightly praised as one of the most brilliant and scientifically solid SF writers around. He took everything Arthur C. Clarke brought to the genre and moved it forward at least as much as Clarke did. But like …
Maya and the Three Created by Jorge R. Gutiérrez Written by Jorge R. Gutiérrez Directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez Country of origin Mexico Original languages Spanish English No. of episodes 9 Running time 26-44 minutes Production Producers Jeff Bell, Phyllis Laing, Ken Zorniak Production companies Tangent Animation, Mexopolis, Maya Entertainment Distributor Netflix Netflix Animation Voices: …
Only Murders in the Building Created by Steve Martin & John Hoffman Starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Aaron Dominguez, Amy Ryan Music by Siddhartha Khosla Executive producers Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal, Jamie Babbit, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, John Hoffman Producers Thembi Banks & Jane Raab Cinematography Chris Teague Editors Julie Monroe, …
Dune by Frank Herbert Produced by Denis Villeneuve, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Cinematography Greig Fraser Edited by Joe Walker Music by Hans Zimmer Production companies …
Squid Game (Korean: 오징어 게임; RR: Ojing-eo Geim) Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk Written by Hwang Dong-hyuk Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk Starring Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, O Yeong-su, Wi Ha-joon, Jung Ho-yeon, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, Kim Joo-ryoung Composer Jung Jae-il No. of episodes 9 There isn’t a description of Squid Game that wouldn’t cause me to take …
The Wisdom of Crowds © 2021, Joe Abercrombie, Orbit Publications, 528pp There’s a quote late in Joe Abercrombie’s Wisdom of Crowds that may be the intellectual and moral core of the entire book: “Take it far enough, freedom becomes chaos. The voice of the people… is just noise. It is the blather of the lunatics …
Spanish La casa de papel Created by Álex Pina Starring Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso, Paco Tous, Alba Flores, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente, Esther Acebo, Enrique Arce, María Pedraza, Darko Perić, Kiti Mánver, Hovik Keuchkerian, Luka Peroš, Belén Cuesta, Fernando Cayo, Rodrigo de la Serna, Najwa Nimri Theme music composer Manel Santisteban …
Post Mortem Norwegian Post Mortem: ingen dør i Skarnes Directed by Harald Zwart & Petter Holmsen Original language Norwegian Production Producers Espen Horn Kristian Strand Sinkerud, Production company Motion Blur Distributor Netflix Starring: Kathrine Thorborg Johansen as Live Hallangen Elias Holmen Sørensen as Odd Hallangen André Sørum as Reinert Kim Fairchild as Judith Sarah Khorami …
Worth Directed by Sara Colangelo Written by Max Borenstein Based on What Is Life Worth? by Kenneth Feinberg Produced by Max Borenstein, Marc Butan, Bard Dorros, Sean Sorensen, Michael Sugar, Anthony Katagas, Michael Keaton Starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan, Tate Donovan, Shunori Ramanathan, Laura Benanti Cinematography Pepe Avila del Pino Edited by Julia …